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Daniel Kovarek

@kovarek.bsky.social
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postdoc at EUI, PhD from CEU ■ representation, distributive politics, local ties, bureaucracy ■ usually on a bike, a night train, or al banco

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy weekend! This Saturday brings you the rare joy of a 🙌job🙌 in: surveys! democratic attitudes! experiments! three years!! research only (if you want)!!!! with @rikkidean.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !!!!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB393/r...
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Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project at University of Southampton
Apply now for the Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m pretty sure when the rest of the world said the US should switch to SI, they meant kilograms and meters, not this
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Diana O'Brien @dzobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 Free book alert! What happens to the gender gap in political ambition in local government—the “best case” for women? Men STILL report more ambition. Using 3 datasets, this book unpacks why & shows that 🚺 are also much more likely to have “local-only” ambition. Free download + author 🧵 below!
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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧵 Just accepted @thejop.bsky.social, with @tswalve.bsky.social "What's in a name? Name recognition, place-based identities, and candidate success" Voters prefer local candidates. But how do they know who's local? Often simply from the name on the ballot👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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What's in a name? Name recognition, place-based identities, and candidate success | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@christinajuen.bsky.social and I chair an open panel on "Local Party Politics and Governance" at the @dvpw.bsky.social Congress 2027. If you have any questions, please reach out (and also ignore the "Prof" LMU stuff in the call, which obviously is wrong...)😉 CfP: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/...
Call for Papers for the DVPW Congress 2027 in Leipzig on Local Party Politics and Governance.
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📣 Send in your abstract by tomorrow to our Special Issue in @cogitatiopag.bsky.social on Giving or Taking Voice? Representative Claims and Group Appeals in the Public Sphere: www.cogitatiopress.com/app/politics... #cfp #representation #representativeclaims #groupappeals #publicsphere #mixedmethods
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Everyone studies how populists deform the administrative state. But what happens after they lose? In a new 🔓 OA piece in PAR, w/ Bauer, Motta & Schultz we compare bureaucratic repair in 🇭🇺 #Hungary, 🇧🇷 #Brazil & 🇵🇱 #Poland — and why undoing the damage is harder than doing it. doi.org/10.1111/puar.70186
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This looks like a great forthcoming special issue from Michael Bauer, Taco Brandsen, Eva Sørensen and @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social, examining public administration in illiberal times. #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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(De-)anchoring bureaucracy in liberal democracy: administrative reforms between illiberal drift and democratic renewal - Michael W. Bauer, Taco Brandsen, Eva Sørensen, Steven Van de Walle, 2026
Liberal democracies face mounting pressures from systemic transformations and emerging illiberal political forces, placing public administrations at a critical ...
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Anselm Hager @anselmhager.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent' Our latest essay on place and discontent is out today in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Free to read ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1467...
How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent

Gerry Stoker, Daisy Blackburn, Nick Clarke, Will Jennings

Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place-based strategy could provide something of an antidote to populist discontent. In power, populist leaders are arch-centralisers, organising government to dance to their tune. By focusing on place, UK government can respond to people's feelings of being neglected by Westminster and give them the power and tools to tackle issues that matter to their community. Drawing on a survey conducted in England in 2025, we show that, although place-based grievance is widespread, people still express pride in place and see unfulfilled potential, while negative perceptions reflect the material condition of local areas. There is demand for state intervention, but little faith in the ability of central government to deliver. In response, a place-based strategy requires a new style of multilevel governance followed by a slower, more place-sensitive push towards devolved government.
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 11/08/2026
"Explores how politicians' career control over bureaucrats has profound implications on outcomes from corruption to local public goods provision" - Mai Hassan The Co-opted State by @sarahbrierley.bsky.social, Out Now and #OpenAccess cup.org/4wl66NC #PoliSky #BookSky
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The Co-opted State
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Co-opted State
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IE Political Science Department @iepolisci.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We are hiring two postdocs in the ERC project (DIS)EMPOWER led by Professor Michael Becher (DL Oct 30). The project analyzes how work automation shapes the power of workers in the workplace and in democratic politics. careers-ieedu.icims.com/jobs/3160/po... careers-ieedu.icims.com/jobs/3161/po...
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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📣 We are hiring - please share! 👉 1-2 Postdoctoral Fellows with specialization in political data science or comparative politics as part of the ERC project “Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge” (AutoKnow)- PI Tore Wig. 📅3-4 years ⏳September 10, 2026. 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
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Scholars Working on East European Politics @sweep-workshop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We’re SWEEP-ing in a new era 🧹🧹🧹 EEPG is now Scholars Working on East European Politics. What does this mean? We’re now broadening the community to include scholars at all career stages. Lots of fun in store with our new-look on our website (sweep-workshop.github.io) & below⤵️⤵️
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Scholars Working on East European Politics
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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🚨 New GERDA update: - Large update of mayoral elections (6 new states) - Landrat elections - Wahlkreis (district)-level results (BW & LW) - Local council seats (Gemeinde/Stadt & Kreis) - 2026 elections: BW state, BY & HE local More info below and here: www.german-elections.com
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GERDA: German Election Database
Comprehensive dataset of local, state, federal, European, mayoral, Landrat, and county election results in Germany at the municipality and constituency (Wahlkreis) level, plus subnational public opini...
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Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...
Stork on a fifty euro banknotethree buildings with storks on a 50 € note
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Yusaku Horiuchi @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📢 Now online in AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! With Katie Clayton, Aaron Kaufman, @kinggary.bsky.social , and @mayyakomis.bsky.social, we offer a unified framework for conjoint analysis—and argue for analyzing data at the CHOICE level. 📊 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🛠️ yhoriuchi.github.io/projoint/
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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026
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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🚨New paper out in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Women are underrepresented in local politics, and the problem isn't only their election but retention. In a survey experiment with 500+ English councillors, we find that family-friendly council policies increase women's static ambition. 🧵
The picture shows the article abstract: Women’s representation in European local governments remains stagnant at around one-third of councillors. One explanation for this longstanding gender gap relates to structural barriers blocking the supply of women candidates, including working practices which are not compatible with caring responsibilities. Yet, so far we do not know whether measures governments can implement to remedy this, including reimbursing care expenses and remote working, increase women’s political ambition. To answer this question, the study uses a survey experiment fielded to local councillors in England (N = 534). The survey manipulates exposure to a bundled set of family-friendly policies in a hypothetical council to identify the causal effect of such policies on static political ambition (councillors’ willingness to run for their current level of office), and explores heterogeneous effects by gender. The introduction of family-friendly policies significantly increases women’s, but not men’s, willingness to run for office again. Analysis of open-ended survey responses further reveals that women councillors more frequently brought up the difficulty of balancing care and work with a political role, while men were less likely to mention this. Overall, the study contributes new evidence about the important role that family policies might play in closing gender gaps in political ambition.
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
sure, June Ball parties are wild & graduations are moving, but for me it's always been the CEE pol behavior conf organized by @filipkostelka.bsky.social that marks the end of EUI spring term when familiar & new faces, grad school friends & emeriti show there's great research east of the Oder/Leitha
group picture of smiling conference participants at the EUI
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
From our FirstView: Vetting for Virtue: Democracy’s Challenge in Excluding Criminals from Office by SIGURD S. ARNTZEN, @fiva.no and RUNE J. SØRENSEN. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social
Screenshot of the announcement page for the PVS Special Issue 2027, Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics. The page introduces the open call for up to two additional contributions, summarizes the scope of the special issue, and outlines the methodological focus on contemporary German politics.
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Alexandra Jabbour @alexjabbour.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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OPPORTUNITIES - University of Warwick
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Dominik Schraff @dschraff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New paper in @EJPR: Why doesn’t regional inequality always spark backlash? It also depends on relative regional gains, not just absolute regional income. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Growing together or apart? Regional inequality and preferences for inter-territorial redistribution | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Growing together or apart? Regional inequality and preferences for inter-territorial redistribution
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Come work with me! 12 days left to apply! 👇 And if you are at #EPSS, go see the presentations by @clint0475.bsky.social to get a taste of what we do.
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
if you're still in Dublin @ces-europe.bsky.social #CES2026 join our panel on Thursday morning at 9AM 🌅🥱 with @vanghel.bsky.social @alexmoise.bsky.social @nenaoana.bsky.social @ztruchlewski.bsky.social featuring experiments on the EU 🇪🇺
program for the The European Polity Perspective panel at CES 2026
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
looking forward to present our co-authored paper w/ @dasilvapp.bsky.social featuring brand-new experimental data on financial nationalism in Hungary @ces-europe.bsky.social #CES2026 in Dublin on Wednesday in this great panel w/ @duarteamaro.bsky.social @bcaihuelas.bsky.social @tedperl.bsky.social 🍀
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
excited to present some work in progress on sham opposition parties in competitive authoritarian regimes tmr @eui-eu.bsky.social in this panel! many thanks to @angelovpanaro.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social Tiziana Corda & Valerio Vignoli for organizing this great workshop!
Program of 'Democracy and its erosions', a workshop organized by EUI, MetRiSP, SISP and PR
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Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1/ Happy to share that "Factorial Difference-in-Differences" (FDID), with Anqi Zhao and @pengding00 , is out in JASA - ACS. doi.org/10.1080/0162... It has been a truly thrilling experience working with Anqi and Peng.
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Factorial Difference-in-Differences
We formulate factorial difference-in-differences (FDID), a research design that extends canonical difference-in-differences (DID) to settings in which an event affects all units. In many panel data...
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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New paper with @martingross.bsky.social in Political Studies 🗣️ "Feeling overlooked and underrepresented? Citizens’ preferences for dialect-speaking representatives" Do dialects matter for political representation? Short answer: yes.
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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 402)
For the research project “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) at the Center for Civil Society Research, in collaboration with other research units and the Cluster of Excellence...
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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
From our May Issue: Institutional Recognition: Activating Representation to Build Police Responsiveness to Women by @gabikw.bsky.social, @amangla.bsky.social and @sandipz.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
How should we conceptualize political interest? In POQ, Laffineur et al. demonstrate that political interest and disinterest are distinct social identities through a newly developed methodological approach. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
reminder for myself: next time I teach stats, I shall mention the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party
the logo of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party
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Lenka Dražanová @lenkadrazanova.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
📣 New paper with @jschultecloos.bsky.social in European Union Politics. Who rallied hardest around the EU flag after Russia's 2022 invasion? Not convinced Europeans. The EU's traditional skeptics. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
What is the analogue of class guilt you feel witnessing the scenes in Ankara and Istanbul just weeks after my home country ousted its own autocrat with a landslide? Thinking of my Turkish friends tonight, stay safe!
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Turkish police storm opposition offices after leaders ousted
Officers forced their way into the building days after the party vowed to defy a court ruling removing its leaders.
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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...
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Post Doctoral Researcher (SDC-28) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
65.2 🫐 Politicising public service institutions 🧑‍🏫 E. van Elsas, @takesipma.bsky.social & @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social use survey data collected across 5 European countries to work out how citizens perceive ideological bias in public service institutions
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Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries - Volume 65 Issue 2
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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Introduction to R course with Daniel Kovarek is moving to a Virtual Format. Whether you are joining us from across the globe or utilizing our on-site workspace at the CEU campus in Vienna, you'll receive the same rigorous methodological training. methodsnet.org/course/d07-i... #MethodsNET #RStats
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
take my ONLINE Introduction to R 📊 course @methodsnet.bsky.social on the week of 29 June! Reduced pricing, dedicated classroom if you're in #Vienna & a gentle intro into programming for those w/o previous experience! 💻 Register here: methodsnet.org/course/d07-i...
Summary of the virtual Introduction to R course, including schedule, format, and instructor
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
looking forward to be part of this excellent panel next Monday @eui-schuman.bsky.social w/ @nenaoana.bsky.social at the annual @eui-egpp.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk Solidarity in Europe (SiE) conference! join us if you're around in Florence! www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
panel with contributions by Francesca Niola, Ioana-Elena Oana, Elisa Paepcke and Daniel Kovarek
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
#Fidesz Propaganda Caesar donates his entire comms empire to the state now that his accounts are frozen. @forbes.com ranks him #34 on #Hungary rich list thx to a near-monopoly on Fidesz's fear-mongering billboard contracts. A one-sided plea deal, livestreamed on YouTube: what a time to be alive! 🍿
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Jan P. Vogler @janvogler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊
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Drew Dimmery @ddimmery.com · 29/04/2026
The Hertie School Data Science Lab is hiring a postdoc. This is an appealing position with fairly low teaching/admin responsibilities and a lot of freedom to develop your research agenda. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)
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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Intraparty Competition, Geographic Responsiveness, and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List Proportional Representation" by Jochen Rehmert. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Intraparty Competition, Geographic Responsiveness, and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List Proportional Representation | The Journal of Politics: Vol 88, No 2
Closed-list proportional representation is considered to produce politicians engaged in programmatic, party-oriented behavior. Personal vote-seeking and geographic responsiveness, however, are attribu...
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Cole Harvey @colejharvey.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
How do people react to different forms of election manipulation in politically polarized settings? New from me at Democratization @democratization.bsky.social, with survey-experimental evidence from Georgia 🇬🇪: doi.org/10.1080/1351...
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Polarization and the legitimacy costs of electoral manipulation tactics: survey-experimental results from the 2024 election in Georgia
Elections can be manipulated in a variety of ways, both legal and illegal. Legal, or formal, electoral manipulation is common, while illegal manipulation is somewhat more variable. This variation h...
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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) 26/E08
Stellenausschreibung des Interdisziplinären Forschungszentrum Ostseeraum (IFZO)
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
this afternoon at 2PM!
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